New Site Feature: Wowhead Partners with JeevesBot for Guide Lookups and News Alerts

Discord is an integral part of the World of Warcraft community in Legion, and today we're happy to announce that we've partnered with the popular Jeeves Bot!

With Jeeves as the largest Warcraft bot, and the Wowhead News Alerts as the largest webhook, it made sense for us to partner and help each other out.

With the Jeeves Bot update today, the following rocket-powered information has been added:

You can now access and use the Wowhead News Alerts through Jeeves Bot. Wowhead News covers PTR discoveries, datamining, Blizzard posts, community spotlights, and more!

Jeeves is now bringing you a huge selection of always up-to-date guides powered by the Wowhead Guides team. From class guides to boss tips, you can now query phrases in Jeeves and get links to over 150 Wowhead Guides!

Here are new Wowhead-specific commands you can access in Jeeves:

-Twitter Feed!twitter wowhead - Just like that you will recieve notifications in that channel whenever Wowhead posts on twitter

-Webhook Feed!wowhead-webhook - Just like that you will recieve the Wowhead webhook in this channel

-Guides!guide Some Search Terms - Get one of over 150 Customized Wowhead guides.

-Generic Search!wowhead thunderfury blessed blade of the windseeker

-Invite!servers wowhead grab a invite link to the Wowhead discord

Other things you can do on Jeeves includes player lookups, world first race updates, and keystone information! You can support them on their Patreon. Below is a popular list of jeeves commands:

Here are some examples of Jeeves in action with Wowhead! Let us know if you'd like more things to be added in the comments.

Comments

Comment by justgiz

on 2017-09-01T20:58:27-05:00

I don't mean to be that guy... but .... this sound less like a site feature, and more like a discord server feature.

Comment by perculia

on 2017-09-01T23:35:10-05:00

It's something our team spent a lot of time on, and required a lot of updates directly to the site to support. So I would consider it a feature that enhances the site :) to use a more common example - we might do tooltip updates, which affect only 3rd parties, and also call it a site feature since it's powered by the site.

Comment by ZomBieZA

on 2017-09-01T23:57:17-05:00

Imo, I agree with justgiz, more a discord feature. Those who don't use discord lose out on this feature and cannot use this on your site.

Comment by Istaro

on 2017-09-02T00:18:30-05:00

Imo, I agree with justgiz, more a discord feature. Those who don't use discord lose out on this feature and cannot use this on your site.

"More a discord feature" I'd agree with, but "lose out on" makes it sound like you don't have the ability to use this. Like every feature of the website itself, you can choose to use it, or choose not to use it (since it's not like Discord is an invite-only service).

Comment by Saffiosia

on 2017-09-02T06:46:05-05:00

Maybe i'm an old fart, but can someone explain me whats the advantage over playing wow on one screen and having wowhead open in a browser on the second one ? Or does it give the same information in game ?

Comment by Tombsv

on 2017-09-02T08:07:49-05:00

Maybe i'm an old fart, but can someone explain me whats the advantage over playing wow on one screen and having wowhead open in a browser on the second one ? Or does it give the same information in game ?

it is more of a robot going "hey they updated the site" than you refreshing the front page.

Comment by Saffiosia

on 2017-09-02T12:21:51-05:00

Oki but does it do that in game (chat or own window) or is it a standalone prog ?

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

on 2017-09-02T22:07:29-05:00

Maybe i'm an old fart, but can someone explain me whats the advantage over playing wow on one screen and having wowhead open in a browser on the second one ? Or does it give the same information in game ?

Think of Wowhead as being like a Chilton Auto Repair Manual, you don't need to have an auto repair manual to repair a car, but it sure does come in handy when you need a reference for specifications or procedures on how to do something.

Can you play without Wowhead open all the time? Absolutely! Many players like the challenge of figuring out things like how to complete quests, however if you get stuck it is convenient to have another screen with Wowhead loaded up on it to quickly look for answers to any issues you may come across.

Discord is simply a social platform for real-time communication. It is used by many Guilds for activities like raiding, by the secret Wow Discovery Community to aid in solving in game hidden clues for various content and there is a Wowhead Discord that is a fun place to hang out and discuss both the game and to get help when you need it. Once again, you don't need to join a Discord Community to play the game, but you are welcome to do so if you find one that interests you.

Wowhead partnering with Jeeves allows you to utilize various command syntax in Discord to access information on Wowhead without having to leave the Discord program. The result(s) displayed are dynamic links to the Wowhead site which makes it really easy for all those in the Discord conversation to follow. Also, as mentioned, the Webhooks are a way that you can subscribe to receive automatic updates whenever there are News posts on Wowhead.

Comment by Saffiosia

on 2017-09-03T07:05:11-05:00

Tx for this explanation, so in short it's an alternative for alt-tab for discord users ;)I think i stay with 2 screens,one with wow, other with firefox and tabs filled with wowhead, xufu battlepet, icyveins and youtube for fishing, camping and grinding ;)This whole social mediastuff isn't my thing (FB, twitter etc.) been in IT for more than 30y so time for something really important ;)

Made several friends in wow ,from all over the world, and sometimes we chat a little or run some old content.

So tx all for explaning this to me.

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